rclone

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with rclone, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Rclone is really annoying to use on its own2025-08-28
Maze of options that vary by version; configurator is slow and gives too little information2024-10-01
Backups lose executable permissions, so shell scripts stop working after restore2022-09-28
Appears to pause indefinitely with no clear indication of what it is doing2016-09-01